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In France and Elsewhere, Making Face Masks Becomes a Mission

Lisa Bryant

   PARIS - Among the rolling vineyards of France's southwestern Gironde
   region, osteopath Chloe Chancelier has found a new calling as she
   organizes a small volunteer army to sew cotton masks for health
   workers.'¯

   Outside Paris, Anthony Seddiki has organized a network to churn out
   thousands of hospital visors using 3D printers. And in the Loire
   Valley, a luxury fabric maker is redirecting supplies normally heading
   to upscale stores to create a more prosaic, if vital, accessory to help
   slow COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.'¯

   In France and elsewhere, the widening pandemic has catapulted even
   ordinary cloth face masks into prized objects, while surgical ones have
   incited fraud,

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